Jujutsu Kaisen Chapter 268 - Spoilers & Discussion

[korwinkrulpolski]

That's... it? Really? That's the climax? FMA did it better with Envy's death more than a decade ago.

FMA comparison isn't fair. FMA did most of the things better than most of the shonen. It's in the class of its own. Top tier manga.

Good point about Yuji's DE. He's the main character for god sakes and we don't even know how his DE looks like, what it does, it's so unclear and unspectacular. And it was really easy for Gege because he could do something like Benvolent Shrine etc. something similar to Sukuna DE

 

[LYEL]

Who calls yuta by his first name? Rika did occur to me

Maki, Rika, the second years too. These are the only ones i can remember. Maki calls everyone by the first name actually. But since the translation came out i feel like Maki was the one to call him "piece of crap" lol and she was already angry in the last panel AND Maki has the guts to disrespect everyone to be honest lol

 

[Franz]

Good point about Yuji's DE. He's the main character for god sakes and we don't even know how his DE looks like, what it does, it's so unclear and unspectacular. And it was really easy for Gege because he could do something like Benvolent Shrine etc. something similar to Sukuna DE

Yuji's domain is a patched domain created on the spot. It has the sure hit of dismantle and as a location Yuji's memories. But it doesn't have any special effects, it doesn't even have a name.

 

[Battle Wolf]

Cool down ppl, we still got 3 chapters, maybe one showing what comes next (now that everyone was become a sorcerer)

 

[Franz]

English translation

 

[Phaizzy]

Yuji's domain is a patched domain created on the spot. It has the sure hit of dismantle and as a location Yuji's memories. But it doesn't have any special effects, it doesn't even have a name.



I think it's obvious that it's a dropped plot, better that way, it would have been a mess to manage





Plot-wise, it served the purpose of having Sukuna alone, because with Uraume giving him a hand for the sorcerers things would have been even worse.




Remember what Todo told Yuji a Shibuya

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Sukuna has been kind of weakened by half the world.

But correct me if I’m wrong. When he was fighting maki.. the ice lady said he’s not even serious yet..

is there a reason he didn’t use furnace again? World slicing? I just don’t know. Lol

like logically (not sure if you know about black clover) Green Bean is literally the same as Sukuna and Maharaga together. It puts into perspective how tf somebody like Sukuna was so OP when he had the basics of things.

 

[Franz]

But correct me if I’m wrong. When he was fighting maki.. the ice lady said he’s not even serious yet..

And what does this have to do with anything?

is there a reason he didn’t use furnace again? World slicing? I just don’t know. Lol

He can only use flames if he makes cuts in his domain.

 

[papypopo]

I don't remember exactly, but it was explained that in Sukuna's case the soul suppression was not total.

Complete reincarnation implies that the soul takes complete possession of its host's body and erases its appearance when it is complete.
In Sukuna's case, it wasn't complete, although with the bath he had already completely immersed Megumi's soul, as he hadn't yet taken complete possession of his body by regaining his full appearance. If I'm not mistaken, this was explained during, between and after his fight with Yorozu.

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You all know how i love Jjk for it’s universe, im just not please with the ending that was give to sukuna and Megumi’s fate. Otherwise im happy about the story and how it goes.
Im kind of fulfill with Uraume words telling that Sukuna would have exterminated everyone 1000 years ago. It’s kind of true considering that he has then his weapons, free control over his body. He was really unstoppable without his actual condition and everything that everyone did just to weaken him bit by bit (a little bit)

 

[Aurelius]

 

[nfinitfx]

To answer some viewers, Yuji's domain expansion is ''my home town is cool'', and if you are not touched by my home town, and don't become a nice person, you get hit with a soul splitting blackflash.

 

[RatibTM]

I wish Itaduri is day dreaming before he dies, and Sakuna won.

 

[Battle Wolf]

Prediction: Yuta is trying to return to his body but Rika is not allowing they to get closer, so they need to take Rika down in order to Yuta recover his original body.

 

[Franz]

In Sukuna's case, it wasn't complete, although with the bath he had already completely immersed Megumi's soul, as he hadn't yet taken complete possession of her body by regaining his full appearance. If I'm not mistaken, this was explained during, between and after his fight with Yorozu.

I seem to remember that there was talk of the possibility of saving Megumi using Yuki's book, but I don't remember exactly.

 

[Zetauno]

Is this the first time Sukuna calls Yuji by his full name?

I took a break from reading for two months because I thought things were going too slow, now that I reread the whole arc, I'm more or less happy with how things ended up for Sukuna.

His downfall was always underestimating Yuji. In the end, Yuta played a big role in the battle, he planned a lot of things before the events that ended up happening.

I'm just unhappy that it seems like Gege was getting tired towards the end and, from everything going so slowly, things just sped up in a way that I didn't like. Hakari v Uraume, Tengen's merger, political movements of other nations in Japan, etc.

I imagine Yuta is in a "coma" state, still in Gojo's body and Shoko has his original body still alive and everyone will have to think of a way to return her soul to her body (binding vow from Rika?).

 

[Franz]

Complete reincarnation implies that the soul takes complete possession of its host's body and erases its appearance when it is complete.
In Sukuna's case, it wasn't complete, although with the bath he had already completely immersed Megumi's soul, as he hadn't yet taken complete possession of her body by regaining his full appearance. If I'm not mistaken, this was explained during, between and after his fight with Yorozu.

Edit:

In chapter 251 Yuji explains that according to Tsukumo's research two souls cannot completely merge in case of reincarnation.

In the case of non-sorcerers, the possibility of the soul being suppressed is greater, but even in this case it does not disappear completely.

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I'm just unhappy that it seems like Gege was getting tired towards the end and, from everything going so slowly, things just sped up in a way that I didn't like. Hakari v Uraume, Tengen's merger, political movements of other nations in Japan, etc.

Hakari vs Uraume is the classic fight that mangaka use to park characters who are narratively inconvenient or that they don't want to delve into too much.


I think the merger with Tengen would have been difficult to manage, in any case there are three more chapters, there is time to show what will happen to the world.

 

[UHU]

Sukuna was eaten by Itadori off screen. Revelation of this final twist in the final chapter.

 

[dopeycheese]

i wonder what would happen to that last finger though, sukuna seems like he's dead dead and i hope he stays dead. Please not some redeeming his soul nonsense, personally satisfied with the entire sukuna fight

also the realization that nobara and megumi's last conversation with gojo was before the shibuya arc is surreal

 

[lexx]

Sukuna kept his pride as a curse and refused to live within Yuji. The comparison to Envy ripping out his philopher's stone and die rather than accept pity from the heroes in FMA is pretty obvious.

3 chapters left huh. I'm going to make a few observations:

1. Yuta is obviously still alive. What body he inhabits is anyone's guess. The last scene in chapter 268 makes it clear that things have returned to normal - it's a different day, Megumi woke up in his own bed to Yuji & Kugisaki pranking him so if there had been some critical "Yuta is going to die" crisis moment it was handled offscreen and he lived.
2. Culling games are over and the forced merger didn't happen. Again, the atmosphere wouldn't be so...casual...if a mini-apocalypse had occurred.
3. Yuji may, or may not, have eaten Sukuna's final finger. It might've turned to dust on its own considering that Sukuna's main body already had done so. It's not actually significant either way; Yuji's already got the shrine technique engraved in him, and major retcon he's the reincarnation of Sukuna's in-utero cannibalism twin brother (I'm still sore about that, it was unnecessary and if the author's going to delve into Sukuna's origin story THEN DO IT PROPERLY AND NOT AS AN ASIDE YOU HACK).
4. It's "everything back to normal except now we're going to be even busier" - with Tengen's barrier down, there's less protection from curses, and if I recall correctly Tengen's influence was also limiting the number of natural sorcerers being born? So without him it's just going to be the status quo but more chaotic.
5. There is a very non-zero chance that Gojo's alive. I mean, think of it this way: Yuta was able to transfer into Gojo because his body was STILL ALIVE, if on death's door - so it's not like Gojo's body was an animated corpse or anything. If Yuta transferred back there's a super non-zero chance that they somehow preserved Gojo. ALTHOUGH: reading those "goodbye" letters from Gojo would definitely lose their dramatic purpose if literally a chapter or two from now it's revealed Gojo's alive.
6. Sorcerers in general are all going to be leveling up, same as curses. Whatsisname's teleportation technique which can basically allow people to inhabit the bodies of others and gain their abilities it a huge nod in this direction. How many of the characters now have multiple cursed techniques? This was supposed to be super rare exception to the rule, not the new normal. But everyone's going to be able to speedrun simple domain, domain expansion, limit techniques, domain amplification, etc etc with the help of that kid.
7. Non-zero chance that Yuji eats Tengen's...remains? Something's gotta be done with them.

Gojo being alive could be something teased at the end as a final "fans debate about it forever" conspicuous clue or something. That IS a very Gege-like thing to do.

 

[Neala897]

1. Culling games are over and the forced merger didn't happen. Again, the atmosphere wouldn't be so...casual...if a mini-apocalypse had occurred.
2. Yuji may, or may not, have eaten Sukuna's final finger. It might've turned to dust on its own considering that Sukuna's main body already had done so. It's not actually significant either way; Yuji's already got the shrine technique engraved in him, and major retcon he's the reincarnation of Sukuna's in-utero cannibalism twin brother (I'm still sore about that, it was unnecessary and if the author's going to delve into Sukuna's origin story THEN DO IT PROPERLY AND NOT AS AN ASIDE YOU HACK).

It was Jin

 

[Franz]

1. Culling games are over and the forced merger didn't happen. Again, the atmosphere wouldn't be so...casual...if a mini-apocalypse had occurred.

Technically speaking, Kenjaku had entrusted Tengen and the fusion to Megumi.